BackWoods Drifter

This coming week is gonna be an outdoor kinda week for me for sure.
The first part of the week I am going looking for a long lost cemetery. Due to it’s expected location, I can’t really go into great detail about the cemetery until after I return. But hopefully I’ll be successful and can tell [...]

The entire first two days basically followed the same trail as mapped in this post. The difference being my friend and I camped before the climb to the top of the mountain.
My last trip into Spring Hollow, I was riding the ATV my friend was on this time. At that time I had reservations about [...]

Obviously I have been away from the blog for a little while. I’ve been dealing with some personal issues and had to push the blog onto the back burner for a bit. I’m happy to say those issues have been resolved and now I can get back to doing something I really enjoy which is [...]

What is Hell’s Gate? It is a simple metal gate on Kayford Mountain that separates Larry Gibson’s property from an active mountaintop removal site.

Once you pass Hell’s Gate it is like you are transported to an entirely different planet. Or, as the name would suggest, Hell on Earth.

The next photo shows the dragline which is [...]

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